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We’ve recently launched a new website for the Mental Arts “Introduction to the Art of Rewriting” seminar to make it easy for anyone to find out about and to easily register for the seminar. One of the biggest challenges we see for clients and especially business owners is when we get into conversation about what they want to accomplish and …

Welcome to our March edition! I have been thinking alot about the upcoming presidential election…as the presidential primaries are being held and we are seeing more and more how the candidates are fairing, it makes me wonder where our grasp on reality has gone? Trump, who is more like a foul mouthed, washed up comedian…is winning primaries…how is that …

Welcome! So very often we perceive someone to be a certain way based on how we think or what society deems acceptable. And more times than not we find, how we thought things are, are vastly different. We are a fascinating lot for sure, with all of our societal prejudices and media fantasies. The very fact that we can meet …

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to our January edition! This is a year of change in many ways, the most talked about is the Presidential election this coming November. We, of course, will be writing about this event as we did in this very edition. And as always we offer much food for thought. Our country is on the …

Welcome everyone to the December edition of the Mental Arts newsletter! There is a quote that says “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” From what I am seeing in such things as the presidential race and the continued news of terrorist attacks and senseless shootings I am concerned that we are about to make a grave error …

I remember the first time I floated, I had heard about it thru a friend who had listened to a podcast by Joe Rogan. I told myself I have to try this and went to task looking up float centers on the Internet in my area. That was 5 years ago, back then tank centers were few and far between. …

Welcome! In this edition we are looking at what it takes to own and run a successful Float Center. It is much more involved than meets the eye or what many people believe it to be. The fantasy of it’s “all good” can get blown out of the water when someone begins to realize what is required or what it …

written by Terri Stangl, Quantum Floats, Bedminster, NJ — I recently had a two-week residential internship at Art of Floating (AOF) in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. I ran a small float center in Michigan for several years by myself so I thought I knew how to run a float center. I was curious to see what it was like to be in …

There is a business concept called Barrier to Entry that seems to have escaped the attention of many in the Float Industry. It is not a common concept but one that should be considered carefully. Investors certainly consider Barrier to Entry when they are considering a start up of any variety. But the Float Industry really has no such Barrier …

Welcome to the October edition of the Mental Arts newsletter. Have you thought at times that life is moving by so quickly? Many people do, and I think it is because we get caught up in the hustle and bustle of our every day routines and end up losing touch with the world around us. There is much going on …

Welcome to the September 2015 edition…I was having a discussion with my daughter’s boyfriend about someone on Facebook who was saying how black people, gay people, any race of people should watch out for there own and that we should stay separate, that somehow that worked better in this person’s mind. However, if we pay the least bit of attention …

Welcome to the August edition of the Mental Arts newsletter…As human beings we seem to have a tendency towards embracing what’s comfortable or what’s known, sometimes even digging our heels in and saying “well, that’s the way things have always been”. In doing so though, creates a limit…it limits the joy within our lives and limits what we can accomplish …

Welcome to the July Edition of the Mental Arts Newsletter The past month has been filled with unprecedented accomplishments in our nation along with senseless violence. As far as we have come, in many ways we still have so much further to go. I suppose this is true in any society, however from what I have seen with the recent passage …

Welcome to the June Edition of the Mental Arts Newsletter “In a relationship”, we hear this phrase used a lot, maybe even daily. We see it when someone updates their status on Facebook or some other social media, when talking with friends or family or reading the latest article. In our society that phrase has come to mean a “romantic …

Welcome! This edition of the Mental Arts newsletter is focused upon Business and how understanding the nature of programming and metaprogramming in the human bio-computer is essential, not only for business owners, but also managers and even employees. Understanding the origins of thought and what one believes to be real can and could be a cornerstone of every business and …

Welcome to our April edition of the Mental Arts Newsletter…There has been much in the news recently concerning discrimination of women, of the LGBT community and race. It’s not that it hasn’t always been there, however it seems that this issue has come to the forefront. What we have seen recently with the “religious freedom” law that was passed in Indiana …

Defeating self-importance is work. As Castaneda said, “Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it – what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men.” Self-importance affects us by keeping us from achieving raises, getting along with mom, telling those we love that we love them and on and on. Now this is the kind of …

As many of us in the Northeast and other parts of the country have experienced, this winter has been particularly challenging with heavy snows, wind and ice. I have heard many people express they are ready for Spring, I have uttered those words too. Something to consider though is if we are all connected as Quantum Physics has proved, we …

Lily said,” The mind is defined as the sum total of all the programs and the metaprograms of a given human computer, whether or not they are immediately elicitable, detectable, and visibly operational to the self or to others.” This is an idea we have to consider very carefully when we work in a tank office. First, the statement suggests that …

Welcome, everyone to our 5th edition. We hope you are enjoying the various articles that our colleagues and friends have written. The articles have been thought-provoking and timely. You may have even found you’ve gained another perspective to view the goings on in the world and even within you. Many of the events occurring in the world can seem challenging …

I always hear people talking about how they’re all so careful about people coming out of the tank. They “protect” them by not talking to them, they say. This is especially prevalent in the New Age/It’s all good crowd. They’re not going to impose their will on no one, you see. But that isn’t the actual problem in a tank center. The actual …

Welcome to our January 2015 edition. The new year is upon us, with all the “new year’s resolutions”, Objectives and Goals set, and an entire year ahead of us, here is a quote by Neil Gaiman that I think opens the door to think a bit differently about accomplishing what we set out to do… “I hope that in this …

Electricians, plumbers, mechanics, painters, joiners, truck drivers, machine operators, welders, fitters, HVAC service techs, operating engineers, iron workers, sheet metal workers, plasterers, bricklayers and a host of other professions all require apprenticeship programs to be completed before a person is allowed to work in that particular profession. But in the float industry there is no demand from established people in …

Welcome to Our December Newsletter As all of us are in the midst of the holiday season with all of its hustle and bustle and merry making, we are also fast approaching a new year. This is a wonderful time to contemplate and set a direction for the year to come. As you read through our newsletter you will see …

Back in the first days of public floating no one really knew what floating was about. Much less what effects floating would really have, not for the client and especially not for the float operator. Lilly didn’t even know. He spent his time in self examination, not in listening to people resolve their coalition conflicts. However, that does not mean …

Welcome to our 2nd Edition First a huge thank you to all of you who contributed to making our first edition such a success. We put in lots of hours to make it happen and were rewarded by your gracious support. This second edition came together much easier and as we sort through our contributors we hope to expand the …

Welcome to the first edition of the Mental Arts Newsletter… In the coming issues we will endeavor to bring you news of the floating world, of opinions on current events as seen from a tank office, local news of interest and do our best to be interesting as well. We will host feature writers from various tank offices, interviews with interesting …

by John Worthington, author of “The Office of Shaman” It is disturbing, to say the least, the proliferation of tank operators who have no idea of what they’re getting into nor what the consequences of that ignorance will have on their lives and much less the lives of their clients. John Lilly spent his entire life experimenting and exploring in …

Lilly said, “Encounters with other persons in the real world are much more powerful in terms of modifications of programs than either psychoanalysis or self-analysis. For example learning through sexual intercourse cannot be given through the verbal/vocal mode.” He also stated, “The isolated solitudinous individual does not have a present coalition to work on, in, or with. He projects past …